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On 16 June 2011, ARF held a Webinar with Eddie Lee, Todd Golde, Gunnar Gouras, Frank LaFerla, Virginia Lee, Lars Nilsson, and Robert Vassar to discuss this study’s implications for intraneuronal Aβ and its role in AD pathogenesis. The Guest Moderator was ...

On 19 April 2011, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer’s Association (AA) published new guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its pre-dementia and preclinical phases (see ARF related news story on McKhann et al., ...

Children born with Down’s syndrome can receive excellent healthcare at specialized clinics, but once they become adults, their care often falls to doctors who may be less qualified to deal with their specific needs. The new Down Syndrome Center for ...

When two biological networks as complex as the nervous and immune systems cross paths, you know the interaction is not going to be simple. Add in neurodegeneration—such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—and it creates a web that will take many scientists ...

Alois Alzheimer made a major breakthrough when he discovered senile plaques in the brains of dementia patients, and his work ultimately led to the discovery of amyloid-β and to the amyloid cascade hypothesis. But that cascade is only part of a much bigger ...

The formation of cytoplasmic inclusions called stress granules is one of nature’s many ways of coping with adverse situations. It appears that these inclusions sequester non-essential messenger RNAs, allowing cells to focus on making proteins, such as ...

This Webinar recapped the latest research in this area. Michael Heneka of the University of Bonn, Germany, and Doug Feinstein of the University of Illinois, Chicago, gave presentations, and were joined in a panel discussion by Virgil Muresan, New Jersey ...

Have you been waiting for a quick yet reliable test for early dementia? The AD8 might be your answer. The interview-based screening tool detects early cognitive impairment, has been validated against the clinical dementia rating scale and against ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis has perhaps the strongest diagnostic and prognostic potential for Alzheimer disease to date, yet some think the field is not harnessing its full power because patients, doctors, and even some investigators harbor ...

As Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same might be said of the brain. Normal brains look and behave similarly, but those affected by different neurodegenerative diseases are ...

On 25 June 2010, Ken Kosik, M.D., a neuroscientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the executive director of Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies (CFIT), led a Webinar about CFIT, which he describes as "the first full ...

In this Webinar, Paul Aisen gave a slide talk followed by a panel discussion with Reisa Sperling and Lon Schneider, clinician-researchers and members of the ADCS Steering Committee; Randall Bateman, clinical core leader of DIAN, who is planning drug ...

At this Webinar co-hosted by Alzforum and Schizophrenia Research Forum, Hugo Geerts of In Silico Biosciences, presented a talk based on his recent article, "Of Mice and Men: Bridging the Translational Disconnect in CNS Drug Discovery" (CNS Drugs ...

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